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Revelation 17:15

And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.

KJV

καὶ λέγει μοι, τὰ ὕδατα ἃ εἶδες, οὗ ἡ πόρνη κάθηται, λαοὶ καὶ ὄχλοι εἰσὶν καὶ ἔθνη καὶ γλῶσσαι.

Greek NT

Et dixit mihi : Aquæ, quas vidisti ubi meretrix sedet, populi sunt, et gentes, et linguæ.

Vulgate

And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.

ASV

And he said to me: The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sitteth, are peoples and nations and tongues.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

γλῶσσα
glossa
noun · 50×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
κάθημαι
kathemai
verb · 89×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
λαός
laos
noun · 144×
οὗ
ou
adverb · 24×
πόρνη
porne
noun · 12×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἔθνος
ethnos
noun · 162×
o
article · 19778×
ὁράω
orao
verb · 682×
ὄχλος
ochlos
noun · 173×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×
ὕδωρ
udor
noun · 76×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Chapter 1. Summary of the Foregoing Books, and Scope of that Which Follows. I. The man who fears God seeks diligently in Holy Scripture for a knowledge of His will. And when he has become meek through piety, so as to have no love of strife; when furnished also with a knowledge of languages, so as not to be stopped by unknown words and forms of speech, and with the knowledge of …

Cross-references

  • 2Sam 22:17 — He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;
  • Ezek 31:4 — The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.
  • Isa 8:7 — Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all
  • Isa 17:12 — Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
  • Isa 27:1 — In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
  • Jer 51:13 — O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
  • Jer 51:13 — O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
  • Jer 51:42 — The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
  • Jer 51:55 — Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:
  • Ps 18:16 — He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
  • Ps 46:3 — Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
  • Ps 65:7 — Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
  • Ps 93:3 — The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
  • Ps 93:3 — The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
  • Ps 124:4 — Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
  • Ps 144:7 — Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;
  • Rev 10:11 — And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.
  • Rev 10:11 — And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.
  • Rev 11:9 — And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
  • Rev 11:9 — And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
  • Rev 12:15 — And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
  • Rev 13:7 — And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
  • Rev 17:1 — And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
  • Rev 19:2 — For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.